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Our First 10,000 Users with Salary Maps and Charts

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One complaint that applies to most other salary apps (and mainstream reported numbers) too: unclear definition of salary - does it include bonuses, RSUs, options, etc. amortized annually? Without that, it seems to me meaningless to consider two 180k salaries as equal when one is making only 60k in bonuses/RSUs and another (let's say more wall st oriented) making 180k in year-end bonuses.

Are the salaries I'm seeing on the site base salaries only? If so, how are you guys planning to address the above issue? Otherwise, I do love the idea of the Salary Fairy (and FairPay).

And the job titles are a bit ambiguous. There is Software Development Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer, and Software Engineer.

Hi HN! We built these visualizations with d3 library. I'd love to hear your feedback, especially on the visualization of predictions between cities. Thanks!

The maps don't seem to work on Opera 12.

Thanks! I'll look into it right away.

Great to see people who care. :)

I tested the page on Opera 12 for Mac and Windows 8, but couldn't reproduce the issue. Which OS do you use? Could you also let me know the exact version number of Opera 12. Thanks!

Sure, here's the stats:

    Version   12.17 
    Build     1863 
    Platform  x64 
    System    Windows 7

The problem manifests itself as the maps being entirely blue.

Very cool application. I agree with MangoDiesel in that I found myself going through about 20 profiles with averages and then another 10 without, which makes for a poor experience. Intermixed would have been better.

Also, can't wait to see more users onboarded and see what people will guess on my own profile :)

Out of curiosity, what will your monetization be like?

Thanks :) We have an opt-in program called FairPay, where we connect our users with employers who are willing to pay at least the crowd predicted salary. We charge employers to schedule phone calls with candidates.

Very neat! Thanks for sharing :)

After the first 7 predictions I made I ran into a series of many people where I was the first one making the prediction and didn't get to test my prediction against the crowd. It would have been a better experience to stagger the new profiles in with established ones because after 5-6 profiles in a row where I was the first one predicting I grew bored and clicked away.

Thanks, that's a really good point. Right now we bring profiles based on factors such as their score, location, and profile similarity. But the number of predictions they received so far is not one of them. We'll make sure to take it into account as well. Thanks for the feedback!

Having to use the slider bar to predict salaries is a bit annoying. Could you also add the ability to just type in a number?

We definitely can! I'll make this a priority. Thanks for the feedback!

Why don't you have users state their actual, current salary, and use that as part of the predictive analysis?

If you gather this data in different compensation categories, such as renumeration, options, benefits, RSUs etc – one would be able to get a better picture of what a "salary" is.

Is the job salary section still US only? How much is 'averaging' skewing the results? I am quite a bit over CTO (not to mention Sr Software Engineer) as just a web developer, and I don't feel like I'm overpaid...

Yes, the charts are US only. Averages are quite skewed. We have CTOs at 2 person startups as well. One of the things we learned is that averages are not very good for comparing your salary. You need to look at other data points for it to make sense (e.g. number of employees in the company, years of experience, etc.). That particular chart is good for comparing top paid job titles with each other, not so helpful to get an idea how much you would make.

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